Navigating English Policy and Practice in Japan’s Primary Schools
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Navigating English Policy and Practice in Japan’s Primary Schools

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Navigating English Policy and Practice in Japan’s Primary Schools

About this book

This book investigates recent changes in language education policy and the implementation of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Japan's public elementary schools. Through interviews with policymakers, school principals and elementary school teachers, it examines the challenges in creating, transmitting and applying this new language policy. It reveals not only the contents of language policy documents, but the political and socioeconomic rationale for introducing EFL into Japan's national curriculum. This book will aid understanding of various macro-level discourses, such as progressive and conservative views of schooling in Japan and how globalization has affected attitudes toward English education. It will be of interest to researchers in language policy and planning, second language acquisition, second language teacher education and Japanese studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Note on Name Conventions
  9. Introduction: Ethnographic Insights into Elementary English Language Policy in Japan
  10. 1 Language Classrooms: Competing Ideologies on Language, Culture and Identity
  11. 2 The Politics of Policy Formulation: Acceptance and Resistance
  12. 3 The Players: MEXT, the Board of Education and Schools
  13. 4 Policy or How the Ministry of Education Controls Language Learning
  14. 5 The Role of Textbooks
  15. 6 Teachers Bringing English Language Policies to Life
  16. 7 English Lessons Reimagined: Making Policy More Meaningful for Young Learners
  17. Conclusion
  18. Appendix A
  19. Appendix B
  20. Appendix C
  21. Appendix D
  22. Appendix E
  23. References
  24. Index